Hijacked Website Removal

It is
becoming increasingly common for
lapsed domains (old website names)
to be bought and used by
counterfeiters to sell fake goods.
These are referred to as hacked
websites or hijacked websites.

UK Anti Piracy supplies numerous
organisations with anti piracy
services. These include the English
Pool Association (which is the
official governing body for 8 Ball
Pool in England). As part of our
service, UK Anti Piracy monitors
County Pool Association and
affiliated leagues websites for
piracy issues.

In 2016 we
identified that West Midlands County
Pool Association website had been
hacked - hijacked by Chinese
counterfeiters and was selling fake
designer goods. We notified all
parties and we acted to close the
website. We also contacted the
necessary authorities and made them
aware that West Midlands Pool
Association were in no way
responsible for the hijacked website
- hacked website.

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In 2017 we identified that the
Nottinghamshire County Pool
Association website had also been
hijacked -

hacked and was selling fake
sports clothing and fake designer goods.
We notified all parties and we acted
to close the website. We also
contacted the necessary authorities
and made them aware that
Nottinghamshire County Pool
Association were in no way
responsible for the hijacked website
- hacked website.

In the above examples, the good
reputation of legitimate
organisations was compromised by
criminals purchasing established -
respectable website names (website
hijacking) and then using those
names - reputations to promote -
sell illegal goods.

In other cases, legitimate
organisations are under attacked via
website hacking.

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In March 2017 we found
that numerous educational and public
service USA websites were hacked -
websites hijacked (as above). In
these cases, counterfeiters created
pages on the hacked websites -
hijacked websites (eg;
saskarchives.com/IR15yQUk, usao.edu/Ivn5yQVC,
dsusd.us/IRIDIR1T?q=node/79, andl.wjh.harvard.edu/IvUK8pLK) which
all pointed to fushoes.net (pirate
Chinese website selling counterfeit
sports wear).

It should be noted that in each of
the above cases, the attacked
websites were in no way responsible
for the links - Fushoes had hacked
the websites.